UNIT 1
What best explains the difference in the number of bureaucrats employed by the Department of Education and the Department of Homeland Security?
What is The Department of Education primarily addresses state issues, whereas the Department of Homeland Security primarily addresses national issues.
The president is most likely to use an executive order to make important policy when
What is a compromise cannot be reached with Congress
The application of the death penalty has been limited in recent decades and cannot be applied to minors and people who are found to be mentally incompetent. Which of the following is a reason for this?
What is The Supreme Court changed its interpretation of what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendmen
Which of the following is an accurate comparison of conservative and liberal views concerning social policy?
What is Individuals should not rely on government aid for their economic well-being. The government should be responsible for helping to improve the economic position of low-income people
Which of the following best describes a trend in the line graph above?
What is Voter turnout in midterm elections generally decreased between 1966 and 2014.
Which of the following statements best summarizes Hamilton’s argument?
What is Listing rights will lead some to assume that government may regulate those rights.
Appointments to the federal judiciary are often contentious for which of the following reasons?
What is Life terms for federal judges mean that presidential appointments will continue to have influence long after the president’s term is over.
Which of the following actions by public school students would most likely be protected symbolic speech based on the precedent established by Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)?
What is Wearing t-shirts objecting to a school board decision
Which of the following policies is most likely to cause tension between the competing values of individualism and equality of opportunity
What is Implementing affirmative action programs
Which of the following is an accurate conclusion based on a comparison of the trends in the line graph above and your knowledge of voter behavior?
What is More citizens vote in presidential elections because there is more media coverage of presidential elections than midterm elections.
What constitutional provisions limits the power of the national government in Hamilton’s argument?
What is Enumerated powers in Article I.
A new president has been elected and has a number of positions to fill within the federal bureaucracy. Which of the following is an example of filling a position based on political patronage?
What is Nominating a high-level campaign fund-raiser to serve as an ambassador to New Zealand
Which of the following scenarios would most likely be considered a violation of the Fourth Amendment?
What is A suspect’s cell phone is analyzed by police before a warrant is issued.
Which of the following most likely accounts for the different results?
What is The questions contained a difference in wording
Based on the infographic, which of the following claims would an opponent of state voter-ID laws most likely make?
What is Voter-ID laws are likely to decrease turnout among African American voters because they are less likely to have government-issued IDs.
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 authorized the government to deny income tax deductions for employer health plans that did not offer employees the option of keeping their health insurance after leaving the job. Which enumerated power allowed Congress to make the law?
What is Regulating commerce among the states.
Which of the following is an accurate statement about the information in the line graph?
What is Entitlement spending has steadily become a larger portion of the federal budget.
Which of the following is contained in the Fourteenth Amendment and was likely an inspiration for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”?
What is The principle that all people should be equal under the law, as embodied in the equal protection clause
A society that puts equality—in the sense of equality of outcome—ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests. On the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality. . . . A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized. —Milton Friedman, Free to Choose (1980) 15. Which of the following statements is most consistent with the author’s argument in this passage?
What is Undermining freedom will extinguish both freedom and equality
Based on the infographic, which of the following strategies would a group seeking to increase turnout likely pursue?
What is Lobby state legislatures to overturn voter-ID legislation
What scenario would be considered an unconstitutional use of state power?
What is A state places a tax on furniture made overseas.
Based on the information in the line graph, which of the following is the most likely implication of entitlement and defense spending as a portion of the federal budget?
What is Changes in entitlement spending put pressure on discretionary spending.
During the Civil War, President Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus and detained thousands of citizens who protested the war. Which of the following statements best illustrates this scenario?
What is There is a tension between civil liberties and public order.
Which of the following ideological perspectives is most consistent with the passage?
What is Libertarian
Which of the following important functions of democracy would most likely be more difficult without political parties?
What is Educating the public about upcoming elections